Oscar Wilde Quotes & Quotations

Oscar Wilde Quotes

» Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

» Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.

» I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

» Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

» The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

» While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

» We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

» It is he who has broken the bond of marriage -- not I. I only break its bondage.

» Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

» Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

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